Looking at apes or its imagery to some extent seems like looking in a mirror. It is the experience of seeing too many similarites and differences embodied at the same time. This proximity to the human species makes apes appear somewhat uncanny and ambiguous, exhibiting the absence of a clear separation between human and animal. In this art work apes are identified as apotropaic figures assigned to prevent and repel adversity and unwished absence by giving it a presence. Part of this practice was a special concentration on a repetitive act when creating the work. 50.000 band aids out of paper where produced and assembled to form the porous ground. Millions of strokes that injured the paper form the uncanny hair of the apes by its absence of colour. However, these objects and signs remain mere substitute or fragment of something missing, the reason why they get collected and repeated obsessively.

Every piece, every line, every slit a presence that repels and surrounds his absence.